Post by account_disabled on Jan 3, 2024 5:53:33 GMT
At the beginning, as a new literary blogger, I accepted and two books published in self-publishing arrived at my home. Which I haven't read. Nor therefore reviewed. The “quality” was what it was. From that moment on I wrote clearly on my Contact page not to ask me for book recommendations and reviews, as they would not have been accepted (incidentally, it was of no use, because the requests continued to arrive anyway). Someone got angry, wrote to me privately - anonymously, how strange - criticizing me, especially for the fact that I "recommended books on the blog" but didn't accept advice from others. Having a review blog doesn't mean recommending books, but just talking about your impressions of the books you read.
But this, I imagine, is a detail. The claims of self-publishers Some time ago we read about a similar case in Chiara's blog, “Notes on the margin”, in her invective against the reports . A thought struck me a lot in that post, the fact that according to someone - according to that person, indeed - every author had the right to be helped, to deserve a place in the Special Data literary world . These are childish claims . Nobody has this right. Help, if anything, is asked for and please. If I can and want to give it to you, I give it to you, otherwise go and look for it somewhere else. This, at least, is my philosophy. There is no such right, anywhere. There is the quality of a product, the spontaneous purchase of that product, the equally spontaneous discussion about that product. In that case the author gets – does not deserve – help. No one deserves a place in the literary Olympus, but he must deserve it . Word pun? No, because merit is not a value given a priori, but a posteriori. No student deserves to be promoted, but he must deserve promotion by studying.
Is the concept clear? The meaning of self-publishing It's easy to publish today, just export a manuscript from Word to epub and that's it: ebook created and ready to be uploaded to Amazon. In my opinion, this is what most self-published authors think. Doing everything on their own pushes them into wild promotion , carried out without a study of marketing and the publishing world - studying and informing is hard work - and to ask, ask, ask, with hope - and expectation! – to be heard. Self-publishing, however, means an author transformed into a publisher , not a daring amateur. We have talked about it several times. Spontaneous help: when education pays off A few weeks ago Lisa talked about Antonella Mecenero's novel The Rock in the Heart . Here is an obvious case of a spontaneous review . Very positive this time, because there have been cases of negative reviews, not appreciated by the authors. The “Self-Publishing Stuff” blog closed a few months ago. I thought it was very useful, because it highlighted all the mistakes of self-published authors. The author read the previews of the ebooks and highlighted the various errors, especially grammatical ones.
But this, I imagine, is a detail. The claims of self-publishers Some time ago we read about a similar case in Chiara's blog, “Notes on the margin”, in her invective against the reports . A thought struck me a lot in that post, the fact that according to someone - according to that person, indeed - every author had the right to be helped, to deserve a place in the Special Data literary world . These are childish claims . Nobody has this right. Help, if anything, is asked for and please. If I can and want to give it to you, I give it to you, otherwise go and look for it somewhere else. This, at least, is my philosophy. There is no such right, anywhere. There is the quality of a product, the spontaneous purchase of that product, the equally spontaneous discussion about that product. In that case the author gets – does not deserve – help. No one deserves a place in the literary Olympus, but he must deserve it . Word pun? No, because merit is not a value given a priori, but a posteriori. No student deserves to be promoted, but he must deserve promotion by studying.
Is the concept clear? The meaning of self-publishing It's easy to publish today, just export a manuscript from Word to epub and that's it: ebook created and ready to be uploaded to Amazon. In my opinion, this is what most self-published authors think. Doing everything on their own pushes them into wild promotion , carried out without a study of marketing and the publishing world - studying and informing is hard work - and to ask, ask, ask, with hope - and expectation! – to be heard. Self-publishing, however, means an author transformed into a publisher , not a daring amateur. We have talked about it several times. Spontaneous help: when education pays off A few weeks ago Lisa talked about Antonella Mecenero's novel The Rock in the Heart . Here is an obvious case of a spontaneous review . Very positive this time, because there have been cases of negative reviews, not appreciated by the authors. The “Self-Publishing Stuff” blog closed a few months ago. I thought it was very useful, because it highlighted all the mistakes of self-published authors. The author read the previews of the ebooks and highlighted the various errors, especially grammatical ones.